Jessica Sipos

The Crane Locket

The children were not permitted to wear them. Only when their minds had set would they join the Conscience. Teenagers sought knock-off Lockets, sneaking them from a black market and wearing them when adults weren’t around. No one explains what the Lockets are, what they do—no one can—so they are just part of the landscape of adulthood, a privilege to covet, a marker of coming of age.